The rising cost of Putin’s war
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about Biden’s decision to ban Russian oil and gas imports, Congress’s proposed $12 billion package for Ukraine, the latest military movements, diplomatic efforts to end the war and Russia’s detention of WNBA star Brittany Griner, the treatment of refugees, Donald Trump’s creative plans for Ukraine and how Republicans are annoying President Zelensky. Then Tommy talks with State Department Counselor about how the US is getting arms to the Ukrainian military, how sanctions work, and what the US government thinks will come next.
How to Help in Ukraine
- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America: donate to humanitarian efforts
- United Help Ukraine: donate to the life-saving medical supplies to Ukraine’s front lines
- Revived Soldiers Ukraine: donate to treatment of the wounded and the provision of hospitals
- Razom for Ukraine: donate to tactical medical training and emergency response in Ukraine
- Nova Ukraine: donate to humanitarian aid for Ukraine
- Vox: How you can help Ukrainians
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Tanya Kozyreva - @TanyaKozyreva
Anastasiia Lapatina - @lapatina_
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pate the World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:15.0 | Ben, thank you for not getting sick on me. |
| 0:17.6 | And bailing on the show like Favre and love it to you yesterday. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah, but kind of bullshit there. |
| 0:22.7 | You know, play hurt. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, I mean, there's something called Zoom that we discovered in this pandemic. |
| 0:29.7 | I've never heard of it. |
| 0:30.7 | Before we get to the news, check out the latest episode of Offline. |
| 0:33.9 | Ben, Offline moved to a new feed. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm sure you know this Offline. |
| 0:37.2 | I smashed the subscribe button. |
| 0:39.2 | I smashed the subscribe button. |
| 0:40.5 | The patented Dan Fyfer phrase. |
| 0:43.2 | So this week, John speaks with Karris Swisher, talking about a lot of stuff that we actually |
| 0:49.8 | care about a lot. |
| 0:50.8 | How this is the first internet age conflict in some ways or at least the most online |
| 0:55.8 | war. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, curious, yeah, Ukraine is just so wired up. |
| 0:59.8 | So how Putin is losing this information battle, what makes Zelensky so compelling. |
| 1:06.4 | Kara is one of the most fun people to listen to in the business of podcasting. |
| 1:11.3 | So I highly recommend folks check this out. |
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